News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Russian dairy firm Wimm-Bill-Dann believes consumers are ready to pay higher prices for quality and 'healthy' products. The firm explains to Angela Drujinina why it has chosen to source ingredients from abroad to satisfy this growing market.
The EU's wine-producing countries, including Hungary and Slovenia, this week torpedoed discussions to raise the minimum excise duty on all alcoholic drinks, fearing a domestic backlash from vintners, reports Chris Mercer.
Food makers will be encouraged by a new report that reveals food safety actions along the supply chain appear to be paying off, with new figures from the US government showing cases of the harmful food pathogen E.coli have fallen in recent years.
Food makers will favour rice in formulations, with a new study set to boost consumer perception of the grain, showing rice eaters have a healthier overall diet, with less added fat and sugar than their non-rice eating compatriots.
Russia's dairy, bread and juice sectors are driving a raft of novelty product innovations aimed at inspiring Russia's functional food sector, offering opportunities for companies looking for more value-added products, reports Angela Drujinina.
Food chemists bring new knowledge to cut costs in the steady European popcorn market, identifying a key crystalline structure in popcorn that appears to determine its popping quality, reports Lindsey Partos.
Ambitious US ingredients supplier Cargill boosts its war chest, announcing a 35 per cent rise in profit for the third quarter of 2005, on gains from commodity trading and its animal feed and steel businesses.
Knocked by an economic slowdown and the strength of the Euro against the US dollar, growth in turnover for the European food and drink industry rose by a 1.9 per cent wisp from 2002 to 2003, concludes a new report from the US government, Lindsey...
Culture media supplier Oxoid has expanded the use of innovative chromogenic substrates within its chromogenic media range to provide quick and cost-effective food analysis.
Scientists have identified a key crystalline structure in popcorn that determines 'popability' a discovery that could help manufacturers maximise productivity and increase consumer satisfaction.
British retailer Tesco, which this week became the first UK supermarket to break the £2 billion profit barrier, plans to build on a strong performance across Eastern Europe by adding more than 30 stores in the region this year, increasing...